Yay!! New build in progress

[WezV]

well since i found myself with little to do today i started thinking about the old stock mahogany body blank i had prepped a while back.... then i remembered i had an iceman template i had not used yet

so a couple of hours later we have this



I have a neck from one of my old guitars i might use on it - just not sure it matches well enough yet


and not sure if to go string through body or with this guild style tailpiece


the neck is a beautiful piece of birdseye maple with mac ebony fretboard and double binding - just wondering if the black bound neck matches the white bound body or not :?  i may yet just make a new neck for it

the plan for the body is a black oil top with natural oiled  back and sides

I have also just inlayed another neck - more on that later

[roland_rat]

Very nice though im not sure the black binding on the neck goes with the white on the guitar body.

[WezV]

yeah, i am leaning towards new neck with the proper iceman headstock anyway

[dave_mc]

Very nice though im not sure the black binding on the neck goes with the white on the guitar body.

+1 (which is what i said on musicradar :lol: )

did you have the mockups of the two different bridges on musicradar? If you did I missed it :lol:

Not sure which bridge I'd prefer- probably stringthru, but the guild one is cool too and sorta matches the angles of the rest of the guitar.

[mecca777]

I'd definitely go for the tailpiece option, and metal pickup rings as well. Give it the full late '70s "brass hardware" look.

[Stevepage]

I'd say string thru. That tailpiece just doesn't fit with the style of the body.

I quite like the look of that neck on the body.

[Telerocker]

A white bound of the neck would look better. Great guitar (shape/woods) though.

[JacksonRR]

 :D Sweet. You don't see a lot of custom Iceman one-offs. I would have to place my vote for a new neck as well, considering the skills you possess. Will be following this one.

[WezV]

i think jonathan has done a few custom icemen

this will get a new neck - i have decided that much.  I was considering changing the body binding to black - but that would take away from the finish option i want.  I was just considering how cool it would look with some joe barden white humbuckers or P-90's with blades... wonder if tim will be offering the blackhawk in white ???

[FernandoDuarte]

Very cool! Not sure if the neck matches the body, but the headstock does... no need for original Ice's headstock

[Philly Q]

Agreed about the neck binding not matching, but I'm kind of digging the Guild tailpiece.

Unless you go the whole hog and get one of these:

[WezV]

nah - not my thing.  the plan is for something much more classic so i am going to do a new neck... probably out of sapelli

what i am really thinking is a hint of the blacktop look:


but white plastic instead of cream, probably white pickups too and not much more than oil for the finish - blackened on top

[hunter]

nah - not my thing.  the plan is for something much more classic so i am going to do a new neck... probably out of sapelli

what i am really thinking is a hint of the blacktop look:


but white plastic instead of cream, probably white pickups too and not much more than oil for the finish - blackened on top

Wow tha Gibbo is pure sex!

[FernandoDuarte]

Agreed!!! WANNA!!!!

[Philly Q]

It is rather fine!  :D


(Derailed your own thread there Wez!  :lol: )